Monatshefte Guidelines for Articles

 

Submission of Manuscript

The following guidelines will help you as you prepare your manuscript for submission to Monatshefte. Please submit the following documents in three separate files:

1.       The manuscript formatted according to the guidelines below and without your name in the document.

2.       An abstract of your article of no more than 200 words and written in English.

3.       Your name, (reliable) postal and electronic addresses, and your institutional affiliation.

Please send these three documents as Microsoft Word RTF, or WordPerfect 12+ files electronically to office@monatshefte.org. Only original articles not submitted simultaneously to other sources will be considered for publication.

 

Preparation of the Manuscript

The format of the manuscript follows in general the MLA style as specified in:

MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. 3rd edition. New York: The Modern Language Association, 2008

 

A. The Text

·         Format the text in 12-point font with one-inch margins and left justification.

·         Reduce the formatting to a minimum (e.g., no full justification, no running heads, etc.).

·         Do not use hyphenation.

·         Paginate the manuscript (preferably at the top right of the page).

·         Do not use footnotes; use endnotes instead.

·         Reduce the number of endnotes to the minimum necessary.

·         For articles written in German: follow the neue Rechtschreibung (Duden, 21st and following editions,)

 

B. Quotations

·         Mark the quoted text by including it in double quotation marks (articles written in English: “….”; articles written in German: „…“)

·         Mark quoted text within the quotation in simple quotation marks (articles written in English: ‘…’; articles written in German: ‚…‘)

·         If you omit passages from the quoted text mark the omission by a bracketed ellipsis […] (omissions by the quoted author will be given as an ellipsis … without brackets)

·         Mark all alterations to the quoted text by brackets [xxx].

·         Provide the information about the source of the quoted text in shortened form in parenthesis at the end of the citation, e.g., (Friedberg 360).

·         If a quotation is longer than three lines, format it as a “block quote”, i.e., omit the quotation marks, indent the entire passage,  format it in 11-point font, with single-spaced lines.

 

C. Works Cited List

The Works Cited list provides the full bibliographical reference for all  texts cited at the end of the article. The following samples cover the most common entries (for more details see the MLA Style Manual, 3rd edition, chapter 6). Every entry should be formatted in 12-point font, single-spaced, and with a ‘hanging indent.’ It is not necessary to mark the entries as “Print” if the entire list provides printed sources only. Articles written in German follow the German style, i.e., spell the names of the cities in German; abbreviate “Herausgeber” as: Hg., etc.)

 

 

Monographs

Rhine, Stanley. Bone Voyage: A Journey in Forensic Anthropology. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1998. Print.

Anthologies

Adler, Hans, and Wulf Koepke, eds. A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried Herder. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2009. Print.

Editions

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Werke. Hamburger Ausgabe in 14 Bänden. Hg. Erich Trunz. München: Beck, 1989. Print.

Article in a Book

Kasper, August. “The Doctor and Death.” The Meaning of Death. Ed. Herman Feifel. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. 259-70. Print.

Article in a Journal

Friedberg, Lilian. “Dare to Compare: Americanizing the Holocaust.” American Indian Quarterly 23.3 (2000): 353-80. Print.

Websites

Sources from the Internet may be given with the URL  or just with the indicator: Web. Both forms, however, require the information about the date of access. Hyphenate lengthy URLs after slashes only and do not insert the hyphen sign (-).

 

a) with URL:

Magrane, Brian,  M.G.F. Gillilan and Dana M. King. “Certification of Death by Family Physicians,” American Family Physician 56.5 (1997) http://www.aafp.org/afp/971001ap/

magrane.html [date of access].

 

b) without URL:

Magrane, Brian,  M.G.F. Gillilan and Dana M. King. “Certification of Death by Family Physicians,” American Family Physician 56.5 (1997) Web. [date of access].

 

D. Endnotes

Endnotes should be used for information that cannot be integrated into the body of the text and goes beyond the bibliographical reference. Mark endnotes in the text with a superscript number. Endnotes are placed between the text and the Works Cited list and are written in 11-point font and single-spaced. The number of endnotes should be reasonable in order not to ‘overwhelm’ the text proper.